Admission information

Entry details

Admission to Tate Modern is free, except for special exhibitions. Become a Tate Member or a Patron and get free entry to all special exhibitions. Visitors with a disability pay a concessionary rate, and carers’ entrance is free. Under 12s go free (up to four per parent or guardian) and family tickets are available (two adults and two children 12–18 years) – see individual exhibitions for more information.

Wheelchairs, prams and buggies

Accessible car parking

Parking spaces for disabled visitors to Tate Modern

There are twelve parking spaces for disabled visitors to Tate Modern, located on south side of the building, accessed via Park Street at the eastern end of the building. These spaces must be booked ahead.

To book:

Email ticketing@tate.org.uk (please note your name, contact details, date and time of visit are required to make the booking)

Call +44 (0)20 7887 8888 (daily 09.45–18.00)

Once you have parked, please enter via the Blavatnik Building entrance across the level terrace, approximately 30 – 65 meters from the parking spaces. This entrance offers two lifts on the right as you enter, which go to level 0.

If you have booked a scooter, wheelchair, or walker, these can also be collected from the Blavatnik Building entrance.

Drop off points A drop off / pick up point is situated on Holland Street, near the Main entrance.

Wheelchair and mobility scooter provision

Ten wheelchairs and two electric scooters are available at the gallery. To reserve one, please book at least 24 hours in advance. You must have driven a mobility scooter before if you would like to use one at Tate Modern. To book: • Email ticketing@tate.org.uk (please note your name, contact details, date and time of visit are required to make the booking) • Call +44 (0)20 7887 8888 (daily 09.45–18.00)

Blind and visually impaired visitors

Guide and hearing dogs

We welcome guide dogs and hearing dogs in the gallery. A drinking bowl is available at the cloakroom on level 0 – just ask a member of staff.

Large print captions and exhibition guides

Large print captions are available at all special exhibitions at Tate Modern. Please ask at the exhibition entrance

Audioguide

The audioguide is designed to give you an insight into the artworks featured once you are in front of them. It is not designed to navigate you through the gallery to each work. A separate paper guide will help you with finding each artwork.

The Tate Modern audioguide talks you through a selection of the most iconic works in the collection displays, including international paintings and sculptures spanning a century

Each work is thoroughly described as the narrator draws your attention to each feature of the painting, sculpture or installation

Description is followed by information about the artist and the context in which the work was made

You can pick up the audioguide from the Multimedia desk on level 1.

Audio described tours

Audio described tours at Tate Modern occur 4 times a year and led by a visually impaired artist. Listed on the What’s on pages

Deaf and hearing impaired visitors

Hearing loops

Find out whether an event at Tate Modern has a hearing loop in the What’s on pages.

BSL talks

A range of gallery talks, tours and events at Tate Modern are organised in or interpreted into BSL

Find out whether an event at Tate Modern offers BSL interpretation in the Events at Tate Modern in the What’s on pages.

Signing Art training programme

Signing Art was a training programme for Deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users interested in developing the skills needed to become gallery guides. The programme included sessions on; research skills for art, professionalism, and how to best present to a Deaf audience in a gallery setting. These three sessions have been replicated as videos here in BSL or with BSL translation throughout as a reference for those interested in learning more. Signing Art is supported by the Skills Funding Agency

Community groups

Tate Modern offers events and workshops for a wide range of community groups. Attendees currently include mental health service users, homeless people, adults with learning difficulties and ESOL refugee groups.

Touch Tours

Touch tours at Tate Modern introduce visually impaired visitors to the thematic arrangement of the displays. The tours engage with the ideas, materials and techniques of modern and contemporary art.

Tours typically include a sculpture that can be explored through direct handling, and a number of other two and three-dimensional works which are explored using a combination of raised images, handling objects, description and discussion.

There are four tours to choose from. Each one is based in a single suite of Tate Modern. The content of the tours changes as the displays change; the following descriptions are a guide to what you can expect from each tour.

Deafblind tours

We can now offer bespoke touch tours to deafblind visitors.

Book a touch tour

Tours can be given at any time during normal gallery opening hours

We ask that visitors book at least a week in advance, although it may be possible to arrange tours at shorter notice

Facilities at Tate Modern

Information desks

Information desks are located near the River entrance, in the Turbine Hall and in the Clore Welcome Room on Level 0. Staff are happy to help with any questions you have.

Toilets

Fully accessible toilets are located on every floor. On level 0 there is also a Changing Places toilet, which offers:

Plenty of room for carers

Full room coverage electric hoist equipment

Height adjustable changing bench

Paper roll

Height adjustable wash hand basin

Non-slip floor

Privacy screen

Seating

Baby changing facilities

The Baby Care Room is found on level 0. Additional nappy-changing facilities are available in the toilets on each floor.

Lifts

There are four lifts in the Boiler House part of the building and eight in the Blavatnik Building, situated by the main stairs on each floor. There are also two lifts between levels 0 and 1 linking Blavatnik Building entrance and the Tickets and Information desks in the Turbine Hall.

Cloakroom

The cloakroom is on level 0.

You may be requested to leave briefcases, bags or umbrellas in the cloakroom.

Large bags and rucksacks must be placed in the cloakroom.

Buggies can also be stored there, subject to space availability.

There are plenty of self service lockers in the Tanks lobby on Level 0.

Seating

Stools are available in the galleries. They can be picked up from the concourses on levels 2, 3 and 4. Just ask a member of staff or at the Information desks if you would like to use them.

Benches can be found in a number of Tate Modern galleries.

Additional seating is provided in the Turbine Hall and concourses.

Restaurant, Café and Espresso Bar

The Kitchen and Bar on level 6, Boiler House and the Restaurant on level 9, Blavatnik Building has waiter service.

Café on level 1, Boiler House, Bar on level 1, Blavatnik Building and the Espresso Bars on level 2, Blavatnik Building and on level 3, Boiler House are all self-service but staff are happy to help if you need assistance.